fishing - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

Europe and the riches of Asia. It was a farm-based, subsistence economy with a small export trade in grains, tobacco, and salted fish and limited manufacturing. In 1800, the US census, which excluded Native Americans, counted the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

government no longer needed Yamato’s help. Soon after visiting the Tohoku area and seeing the devastation, Kigawa felt it was time to give back to an area that had previously boosted his business with the delivery of fish and agricultural... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

help competing firms avoid the perils of cutthroat competition on one hand and price-fixing collusion on the other. The government can thus help them achieve the balance of healthy competition that is vital to sustained prosperity. Consider the commercial View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

sailed back to South America and there was a celebration. But when Shackleton and his men returned to England no one seemed interested in polar exploration, in the Endurance expedition, nor in the incredible story of survival that Shackleton and his crew had to tell.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

said, “your combative comment to the guy who ate fish was really stupid.” “Stupid” stood out, coming from Doug, but it was accurate. Doug went on to argue, convincingly, that allowing the fish eater to claim... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

allocation of resources was difficult. There was also the past legacy of vertical and horizontal integration, which left Unilever owning considerable parts of the value chain. Its trawlers caught the fish that was eventually sold in its... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

service-based economy, the convergence of industry boundaries, and the knowledge revolution. GE is the headhunters' favorite fishing hole. Out of that has come another project. The big change that is going on now—and what's behind the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

small fish in a huge, huge ocean. You won’t get into any of the accelerators. It's just too bro-ville." But Tuchman was determined to do business in Miami. “In San Francisco and New York you’re a small fish... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

voters know who the big fish are. That is why when there are fewer audit firms there could be a greater concern on the firms' part about such political costs." Good For The Industry? There is a potential danger in this approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

economic terms,” Gompers says. The higher returns could be due to one of several explanations, he says. For starters, since women face such a disadvantage in being hired in the first place, it is possible that those who do are exceptionally well qualified. “You are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

2019
Chapter

A Decade of Democratic Decline and Stagnation

By: Laura Jakli, M. Steven Fish and Jason Wittenberg

Keywords: Democratization; Government and Politics

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

one time we didn't have markets for fish in the sea or trees in the woods: there were few of us and many of them, and it didn't matter which of us owned them. That's not true anymore, so we have markets for View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

are a number of "chicken and egg" processes, or feedback loops here. I learned a saying in Chinese: "You can catch big fish in murky water." That means that the big fish are hiding when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

sort out a complex tangle of interdependent contributing factors. Environmental and legal issues muddy the water, for example. In the mid-2000s efforts to save a 3-inch fish called the delta smelt from extinction led to a ruling by a US... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing research confirmed... View Details